it's a tautology

@@Feasco thanks for teaching me a new word today friend

Mims is literally saying, "I'm him"

He doesn’t leave ANY room for argument. He doesn’t say “You ain’t cause blah blah this and this blah blah” to which his opponent could say “Well you’re wrong I am hot because blah blah blah”. No…you’re not hot because you just AREN’T.

All he's saying is that he's hot because he's fly and you're not hot because you're not fly. Read it carefully and it's not at all confusing... nor is it a tautology.

I grew up in 5 grouphomes I hear yah on that one lol

U a real one

Everything ok now?

@@joshsalwen lol yeah. Day of not so much being identified at a 711 across the club. The same people I was throwing it up with, watched me get lead away by the cops and my foster mom who for some reason brought my 6 foster sisters. I can laugh about it a little now.

@@patsysolatzzo2962 thx for sharing and good to hear! Be well

It's gonna be so interesting seeing him do a pop song review AND a one-hit wonderland of the same artist. I don't know if he's even gonna attempt that but I'd love to see it be a thing

I would love to see this! I ended up listening to the rest of his music specifically because of recommendation from that Todd review, but I can’t find anything he’s made after, other than a Prince cover I vaguely remember on his passing. Would like to know what became, especially cause I really enjoy his two albums.

@@mostafaebrahim2498he’s a drummer for the Basics

Thought this said _it’s time for Goatse_

It's been 2 years and no one has made the incredibly obvious joke. Todd in The Shadows clearly has commenters with class.

he needs a lil top hat 🎩

i need that now.

Sounds like a Richard Scarry character

Soul Eater 🤣

We have located the next Final Fantasy character, just make mims a moogle then it works.

That sounds like the plot of a Studio Ghibli film

Haha, that alway blew my mind...how is this song not saying Anything At All? 😂 a high watermark lol

Well Matt, maybe if you are so "hot" then you'll "blaze" through completing our month's regional spending report and have it on my desk by Monday, for once in your life. ps: you are also now banned from quoting Nelly in your email signatures.

@@billhicks8 OMG 😂😂😊

Was just singing this to myself at the office.

Only if they have really poor memories. I’m 18, I remember them.

How about those of us who are so old we got all the way through 2007 without ever hearing this stuff?

I remembered gummy bear and crazy frog commercials

Those commercials were advertising scams lol

Then take comfort there are people old enough who don't remember it either. I can finally say that being a GenXer has had some benefit if I was completely oblivious to this stuff fifteen years ago. I fully admit I have never heard this song until watching this video.

Please make it happen as Todd disliked it in his one of his worst lists.

@@HolyGoddessMotherAnne Cali Swag District probably flamed out as fast as 90s one hit wonder Deep Blue Something with their 1995 smash Breakfast At Tiffany's

@@Thomasmemoryscentral Holy crap you're the guy who worked with one of my inspirations Mr.Enter.

Sad thing is, it’s not even one hit wonders. I’ve noticed even huge names like Madonna and Timbaland have fallen into the NFT trap.

Crypto's dropped like 95%, so not no more.

I'm not sure I'd consider any of that as a "hit". Really the bigger issue is that the era of the widespread pop hit is pretty much over. It's easier than ever to never hear songs. The impact has become more and more limited as culture has Balkanized.

Kind of neat Todd is doing a 15 year old one hit wonder. Now any chance he'd cover James Blunt next?

hell yeah! i wanna see ohw episodes on powfu, t-wayne, arizona zervas, big shaq, silento, sheck wes, ilovememphis and ayo & teo in the future.

@@Belgand while I don't disagree with the notion that hits that only get chart success because of vines/tik tok/etc. shouldn't be hits in the first place, I'm pretty sure making the Top 40s according to Billboard's criteria is the only thing one needs to do to be eligible for this series

I'm still waiting for when he covers 2010s one hit wonders

He was a true man of the people

Yup, that pretty much sums up the dog and poney show of politics.

Is your name really Bukowski?

Damn he sounds badass I would've voted for him too

For reals I’ve come to learn that politics = professional wrestling

I am hoping so hard Mims is reading the comments and has written this down.

Pill in Ibiza type energy right there

I had to check that old to review to make sure this was indeed the song he was referencing.

Hey Soul Sister now makes me think of Pat Finnerty and the fact that it's a stinker song. Anyone else have a "Hey Soul Squire" cheap & nasty guitar?

EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT WHEN I SAW THE THUMBNAIL! i rewatch the hey soul sister review pretty frequently.

I mean that was over 10 years ago.

I hope I don't have to hear Hey, Soul Sister for many many years.

Oh yeah wasn’t this gonna be pretty high on your 2000s #1 hit rankings?

No dumbo 🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽

We don't speak about Maroon 5 here

I've literally never heard this song. Bad, Todd. Bad!!

@@theriffwriter2194 your cultural shortcomings are not Todd's responsibility. We don't want to meet him from future videos.

Lil Nas X did the first and fourth and he's absolutely alive and kicking, so I'm assuming it's all of them in conjunction.

Cupid Shuffle to a tee

6. Their breakout song is about something oddly specific like lusting after their girlfriends mum, attraction to big butts, kung fu movies, monsters partying, the colour blue, self pleasure, Cannibalism weird historical trivia, an animal that sings or dances or a historical figure who has nothing to do with this genre of music. 7. Their accents so thick you can’t understand a word they’re saying 8. One of your least memorable songs in your home country becomes your breakout hit the for rest of the world.

@@mattphillips3537 Sir Mix A lot got smoked by the “grunge-effect” of hip hop, Gangsta Rap.

lil nas x break the trend ngl

That was 12 years ago? I remember when that came out. Gods I feel old now.

@@Foxlawl Well, that review will officially be 12 years old on August 26th.

If he ever does another “ringtone rapper” as an episode for this show he’ll probably dread doing Chain Hang Low. That song (at least to me) is arguably even more repetitive and sounds way worse than This Is Why I’m Hot.

@@whatamisupposedtoputhere It doesn't help that "Chain Hang Low" is so creatively bankrupt that it samples a nursery rhyme.

he also mentioned asher roth in his cooler than me review and he did a full ohw review on asher roth's i love college for his tenth anniversary.

This is a gloriously dorky thing and I can say this because I would fully have been doing the same thing if I were a philosophy major

Logical deduction via tautology

😂😂😂

Yup i was a kid in the 2000s and tought that sub genre was the coolest thing ever and yeah is still think it is.....buuuuuuuut i can only stand the hooks the songs themselves bore me SO MUCH XD

Absolutely! I graduated in '07 and hated most of the rap songs back then. But now I'm like "Awww I remember this song!"

I love 2000s rap.. but people just dissing cause it had a different sound..

@@TheRealityofFake That's a mood right there. I used to proudly proclaim how anti-rap I was back in high school. And then the 2010s came and I warmed up to it. And I go back and listen to 80s and 90s rap and I'm like, "actually, this is really fun." I don't forsee myself warming up to 00s rap anytime soon, but I do still get the "aww, it's that song I used to detest," feelings.

It was when MySpace was at its absolute peak to. A lot of these mid-late 00s rappers and pop singers got big originally off MySpace

Same! It makes so much sense but I'd never realized it!

This is why i'm hot and ready

Performed by people who literally can't dance

True (unfortunately)

True, whenever Todd described what ringtone rap I was thinking to themself, "Wait isn't this what Tik-Tok is doing now?"

will my phone do a silly dance while it rings like the old nokias that would hum across the table

Eh, every era of hip-hop has its disposable one-offs. 90s had vapid party rap and the constant influx of boneless rappers like Will Smith and Vanilla ice. 2000s had ringtone rap. 2010s had Trap drones, vine rap and "mumble" rap 2020s have TikTok

The iPhone also killed off the ringtone because its high-definition touchscreen made dense text messaging feasible on a mobile device, and people stopped using their phones for voice calls as often with a less intrusive communication option available.

@@rommix0 Is it? I looked it up just now and apparently buying ringtones at the time was anywhere from $2.50 to $5. $2 including a copy of the whole song doesn't sound like such a bad deal by comparison.

@@stevethepocket Once music in the iTunes Store went DRM-free in 2009, users could create their own ringtones from purchased tracks, free of charge; but Apple also required users to pay a license fee to remove copy protections from any music purchased before the format change.

Also, the iPhone never let you select a song from your music library and set it as your ringtone, which would have been the natural functionality.

Hey for a lot of hip hop fans this comes up a lot lol

yeah i'm still not sure it's even real and i'm watching a todd vid on it.

Would the same be said about Desiigner's Panda?

As a millenial who actually bought ringtones, same. A ringing phone stops being fun when it's either scam calls, your boss, or your landlord.

I remember in 2012 being a pre teen and perfectly editing dubstep drops to be my ringtone It's been on silent ever since the cash register incident

Ringtones are a lot like a different late 00s/early 10s trend: social media websites. Fun to customize and play around with to suit your mood, but got really annoying really fast. Ringtones didn't try to steal your personal data, but they DID legitimately steal a lot of money from people though sketchy late-nite ads with fine print that tricked you into buying a subscription to a ringtone rather than a file.

I remember when you had to look up the notes of the Ringtones online in order to get that sweet sweet 20 sec snippet of a song

One question from a Gen Yer: how do you notice when you get phone calls/messages etc.? My girlfriend (also Gen Y) keeps her phone on Vibrate constantly and I never am able to call her because she doesn’t notice the damn thing 😂

Yello’s Oh Yeah is probably the best example of that.

I also didn't remember this song, but I knew the next line after "this is why I'm hot" was "I'm hot 'cause I'm fly" because of a Drew Monson video I basically moulded my humour around at the age of 17 where he said that in his outro

@@ActuallyAnanya I miss that guy...

At least who let the dogs out had a message to send, this was just garbage

Don't forget "I'm Too Sexy". That was more of a catchphrase too.

He's been to the bar I work at a few times. It wasn't until the third or fourth time he came that he said who he was, only after his partner pressured him to tell me lol. Really nice and humble guy, very easygoing and a great conversation.

I mean the nft thing is highly questionable, but i guess the emphasis is on 'is'. When he got into it, it wasn't yet a sad laughingstock of failed grifters.

@@nicktallfox5266a lot of people were tricked into the NFT craze for one reason or another.

For real, the only Aughts ringtone rapper with a better post hit life is Chamillionaire, who actually did succeed in investing in tech and got hella rich

To be fair, they are doing it as a backlash to the lifeless state of design in general in modern times (2013-onwards).

​@@Astolfo2001goddammit ios 7

pretty much most scenes in Canada, the southern Ontario screamo scene did spookily well and I think there was a faustian pact involved, well Tony Brummell is almost the devil. lol

@@mattday2656 I was gonna say, the 00s was a bad time to be a hip hop head in Southern Canada but a GREAT time to be into punk/alt/the various subgenres that ended in 'core.

y’all had Kardinal Offishall around that time, no?

@@McMaster1471 👆

@@McMaster1471 choclaire is pretty dope

"One Week" by the Bare Naked Ladies

My first thought... "Canadian rap... You mean like Snow?" I don't immediately think how Drake is Canadian. I don't immediately think Degrassi is Canadian. But I do immediately think of Drake on Degrassi.

Hip hop always was, and always will be regional. The mainstream shit still jacks from the underground. That's how Crunk, Trap, and Drill blew up. They are not the same, and underground artists put in work that studio artists don't.

Actually maestro fresh Wes went platinum in the states in 88 and there are a few more

Now it's Inner Ninja by Classified

😂😂😂

What's your take on Ralph Wiggum saying that sleep is where he's a Viking?

I dunno... I thought he explained his hotness was because he was "fly".

Basically, if Kelly Ripa is singing your hook, just pull a Bobby McFarrin

Was gonna comment this too haha

"Cop It" is a banger, not gonna lie!!

Just checked and my main playlist has 7 songs from that soundtrack, including Cop It. Just top to bottom bangers, right up there for me for most influential soundtracks with ATV Off-road Fury 2.

How about Rock 'n Rollin featuring Tech N9ne? that song dropped in '09 and was 🔥🔥🔥

Sports games soundtracks don't have to go as hard as they do.

Holy shit I went to Piedmont High in the mid to late 2000s lol. Most People there either listened to stuff like this or the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

@@real30yearoldboomerhours53 Yeah I was firmly at the Green Day/Killers/My Chemical Romance end of the popular musical spectrum in 2007. But because also no one has made me listen to ringtone rap since I graduated HS, I honestly didn't realize how much I hated this sound until fairly recently when a coworker started playing some and the sound of an 808 clap played through shitty cell phone speakers filled me with an incandescent rage.

​@Real 30 Year Old Boomer Hours if u lived in the south including Florida, southern rap and ringtone rap were huge

Sometimes I feel like there's a thing with half the population on earth where they know there are nerds and folks who think too much around them who make them feel silly so they just mass support songs that are essentially the music equiv of pulling your pants down and mooning someone/farting until some poo comes out

oh yes that's right, they're called teenagers 🤦‍♂️

For a minute I thought it would be the Rock remix of it.

In addition to said trash heap of Idaho would-be rappers, there are about a dozen actually respectable [i.e. - grown up] Hip-Hop artists in Boise. I can name them if you'd like. ...Also what's wrong with proclaiming inherent love for your hometown, anyway?

@@ChrisDeRoin Never said there was- but I think it's off putting at best when you have a group of people who think the epitome of "hardcore gangster" is the same group of people who all come from predominantly agriculture families. If the point is to "represent" a group or an area, perhaps doing so with a level of honesty is better? I'll be the first to admit that I'm incredibly picky when it comes to my musical taste, and hiphop has never been at the top of my list. However, I do know that Boise has a rather thriving musical scene with several incredibly talented artists across many genres- I wouldn't be completely surprised if there were a few hidden gems, just as there would be in any other "Anywhere Town USA".

@@Karl_Marksman I'm not sure if you're familiar with Idaho's demographic, but the area is a predominantly white, ridiculously conservative state. Our POC population is mostly Hispanic, so I'm sure there's a difference in style/tone in how someone from that background might perform. However, this comment is definitely directed at the mayo white kids who have never left Idaho, trying to "build a career" on their *idea* of what it means to be a rap artist. But I'm first to admit that hiphop isn't really my genre, so I'm willing to bet there are plenty of hidden gems just about anywhere.

@@Karl_Marksman Lil Nas X is from Atlanta suburbs, he was just making a novelty song

@@Karl_Marksman uhhhh lil nas x has gotten two #1s post old town road

Allow me to introduce you to some talent.

@@jadedheartsz Remember that one time when Aaron Sorkin played himself on 30 Rock, and during a walk-and-talk scene where he’s listing his TV shows, Liz says, “and studio 60 on the…” and he tells her to shut up? I laughed my ass off. It is an apples to oranges comparison. Studio 60 it was an hour long show, and arguably a dramedy rather than a sitcom, or sometimes just a straight drama. They had time to do that stuff, and the biggest complaint about the show I remember was that the sketches weren’t funny, but everyone in the show kept acting like they were. On 30 rock theY only had 22 minutes a week, and the premise was that it was a sketch. Comedy show that honestly wasn’t very good. So why bother to show stuff that isn’t very good and take up valuable screen time with sketches that deliberately do not make you laugh? Personally, I do not see that as lazy, I think it’s just a really good use of their allotted time.

yeah that was huge in nz too, i'm baffled by how much they were slept on in america

They have a very low tolerance for novelty, or tackiness, or cheese, what inmho is where some of the best unshamed music is, it's not high art or anything but is great music for music's sake, I remember mims second song while not as big as his main hit still was bigger here, when played I remembered it.

He clarifies that this was a hit outside of America in the S Club 7 episode.

@@kawaiilotus S Club 7 were definitely enjoyed by younger people at the time but as while they weren’t too big. Your right Americans tend to not like cheesy things for the most part.

@@Pinkladyisv you say that, while country music is big only in America

"Like This" definitely got played at a lot of school dances I attended.

a great point!

That..im not sure if i wanna say that's true, but *damn* if it is that's kinda genius.

That's how I feel about Naruto now. I'm 29, I remember it coming on, but I never watched it until 2 years ago, but I still feel MAJOR nostalgia when the first 2 intro songs play. Weird.

Same - I was already deep into metalcore and deathcore, but I feel a weird sense of nostalgia and almost...comfort? When I hear the hiphop/RnB of the bling/ringtone era. Mims and 50 Cent were just as much the sound of my adolescence as Bring Me The Horizon and A7X were, I just had no idea at the time.

@@Replicaate Don't forget Norma Jean, Maylene, TDWP, As Blood Runs Black, Lamb of God, Veil of Maya (The Common Man's Collapse specifically), the list could go on forever lol

@@jojoversus1100 Oh heck yeah. We got flak for it at the time, but the Scene-Core/Myspace Era was a rich one for metal - who's laughing now, trad-heads, amiright? (I know LoG aren't Myspace-core but you get it)

@@Replicaate Dude, we are kindred spirits. I remember when it became cool to be "minimal", so I HTML'ed my scroll bar away, hid my song player, made my background solid black, & only had 1 small text paragraph explaining simple sh*t like "josh.14.guitarplayer.metalhead.8piercings."

Ive never heard portaloo before.

...You call em portaloos over there?

It’s a mockumentary about a guy whose business hires out portaloos to big events. It’s a brilliant piece of our culture.

Australians make films? And know what toilets are? That doesn't exactly jive with my lived experience.

“The stink will outlast religion”

She actually did chart again with a song called Conqueror that made it to 42 on billboard. Not a huge comeback but you can't say she never charted again

I don’t even like Steven Universe but I think it’s awesome how she played one of the main characters.

Wouldn’t be out of his wheelhouse! “I Melt With You” didn’t bubble into the Top 40 but the song was a massive cultural touchstone so he covered it anyway.

Was it not huge in the US? I remember radio here playing that song CONSTANTLY back in 08

She also had a pretty interesting pre-hit career - her first rap album (all the way from 2004) finally made it to Spotify last year. It produced two UK Top 20 hits at the time, but everyone had forgotten about her until "American Boy" came out... I always love it when Todd In The Shadows discusses British acts in One Hit Wonderland...

Can confirm

@@jadedheartsz We know, it's a joke, but also Todd's been pretty aware of the difference between the UK (or at least European) and US pop scenes for a long while now. Honestly it's a shame Don't Stop Movin did so badly because that is the only SC7 song I like.

I mean I’m American and S Club (7) was a Big Deal in my 3rd grade class, so it’s still kind of wild to me that they apparently weren’t actually super popular here?

Todd did an episode of One Hit Wonderland on S Club 7. In the U.K., they were superstars for a few years. In the U.S. though, they were mostly known for a moderately popular TV show and a single top 40 hit called Never had a Dream come True.

I'm more worried about the bulk of music from NOW than from the early 2010s.

Dude Zoot Suit Riot would be super fun! I would love to hear about the 90’s swing trend. Seriously I have no idea why that was a thing! I love it but no clue why it existed.

Zoot suit riot would be a great video! Surprised it hasn't happened yet

@@toric6005 I hate pop your cherry, but ZSR didn't crack the Top 40, much less the Top 20 that seems to be Todd'a threshold for including it here

NGL though Jerk It Out was a banger...would love to see that episode

@@yondie491 Todd did cover songs that are within the fringes of 40 (and I think almost made it). Video Killed the Radio Star comes to mind at least as far as America's concerned

So annoyed. Saw it last night for me (UK) and didn't watch as wanted to watch it properly and go to watch it this morning and it's gone. Hope copyright stuff gets sorted and gets put back up.

something I could imagine Shakespeare saying

The antithesis to I am that I am.

I thought the line was “you HATE cause you’re not”, not ain’t. Nobody would blame you either way though

It is interesting to say the least.

or All the Things She Said by Tatu because there's a really interesting story behind that.

Britain's Big Midget! Wasn't she the first white female rapper to sign to a major label or something? Doesn't matter.

I was obsessed with this song for weeks as a kid, I was a little disappointed that I couldn't find more of her music at the time...found some later on as an adult and realize that was a good thing

You know what would be a good one hit wonder, MARRS - Pump up the volume, that's not just a One Hit Wonder but their only song

There is no universe in which the Zune could have succeeded. I mean for Christ's sake, the word they used for sharing music was "squirting"!

@@hiimemily Holy shit is that true?! I didn't think it could get any more ridiculous than "scrobbling"

Oh that's a blast from the past. I actually really liked Let It Rock

For Kevin,I Made It and Don't Give Up didn't chart? I only know those songs from WWE using them for ppvs

He had “I made it”, which entered the top 20. Kevin might not count.

@@carybeweary7209 don't give up didn't charted at all but i made it did chart to 21 on the billboard charts. however, i think he is eligible for the ohw series because people only know him for that song since people refer to him as the let it rock guy. like you don't see people referring to bruno mars as the uptown funk guy, why? because everyone has heard all his other hits on the radio and stores. like you get me? it's almost similar to hanson and men without hats, they have other songs that charted well but todd made a ohw episode on them because mmmbop and the safety dance are the only songs that made it so big. you still hear them on stores, the radio, tv shows, commercials, movies, etc while their other songs that charted well people forgot completely about them.

@@SteeZy644 but people refer to him as the let it rock guy. like when have you heard people calling, let say bruno mars the uptown funk guy or adele the hello girl.

I’d argue Yung Joc is at least a 2 hit wonder. I Know You See It was going crazy for a decent period within the 2000s

Also, is this the first time he used a metronome or some other rythm device? I think it is. Sound really great.

it was the precursor to vine and tiktok hits

@@legallybland227 yay short attention spans!

NO.

@@laidback93 tl;dr

I’m not a fan of a lot of “mumble rap” or “SoundCloud rap” but all of it is objectively better than a song like “Laffy Taffy” by D4L. I still maintain that the mid to late 2000s “bling” or “ringtone” era of hip hop was the worst in the genre’s history.

​@@rommix0 Funny enough that was a cover of it... featuring George Clinton.

They do technically have another hit, "Spy in the House of Love", but I really want to see him cover them too.

I can't help but think of that one greentext where all these ridiculously dramatic and awful things happen, just for it to be an elaborate walk the dinosaur trollpost. Iconic, but it does make me feel old

@@rommix0 by “the critical flop” I think you mean “the brilliant work of cinema that accurately prophesied the Trump administration”

As long as this comment’s got some traction I’d like to repost my bullet-pointed Was (Not Was) career highlights from a similar comment under the “Return Of The Mack” video: - Their mentorship under Detroit leftist figure John Sinclair, known among other things as the founder of the White Panther Party (who shared the political goals of the Black Panthers but were white) - Recording their first single after one of the chief songwriters sent the other one a letter saying he was so desperate for cash that he’d picked out a convenience store to rob if his friend didn’t leave his job as the Los Angeles Herald jazz critic to come cut a demo - That demo being a disco record with (fellow Sinclair protege) Wayne Kramer of the MC5 on guitar, which ZE Records (the weirdo art-funk label from Todd’s Waitresses episode) agreed to put out as long as they added some vocals besides the LA Herald jazz critic rambling in a campy mad scientist voice, which led to them finding their eventual lead singer so he could re-record parts of the same monologue - Making a bunch of their debut album with crack musicians who’d ordinarily be touring with Parliament but happened to be available because they were stranded in Detroit after George Clinton skipped out on paying them - Getting a pre-fame Madonna to record a guide vocal for one of their songs in anticipation of replacing her with the big celebrity guest they were able to land through the jazz critic’s connections: Ozzy Osbourne - Having their third album sent into turnaround because the label wanted them to replace their (black) lead vocalists with more (white) celebrity guests - Taking that album to a different label and having it be the one with “Walk The Dinosaur” on it - Breaking up almost immediately afterwards so the one who threatened to rob a convenience store at the start of all this could focus on his new career as a hotshot producer, which eventually led to him handling the late-career work of pretty much every boomer rock icon (including a 90’s Bob Dylan album where the entirety of Was (Not Was) served as the lowkey backing band, which featured a song with lyrical input from the jazz critic that’s widely regarded as the worst thing Dylan ever released)

Good idea because reading your comment immediately gave me that "Ooooh, yeah. That was a thing!" flashback from Todds OHW uploads. Such an odd time when dubstep partnered with radio ballads. Good song, though.

The Expectations album is actually very good

He's done rude! He better get through, at least, most of the decent ones cuz he still has quite a few to go